#GNOME replaces its mailing lists with Discourse:
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2022-September/msg00018.html
As someone who grew at a time where email was an unquestioned, decentralized foundation of #FreeSoftware workflows, moves like leave a bad taste in my mouth. I understand how Discourse facilitates onboarding, but the idea of delegating to a central server and using the browser as the sole user interface remains unappealing to me.
Getting old?
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2022-September/msg00018.html
As someone who grew at a time where email was an unquestioned, decentralized foundation of #FreeSoftware workflows, moves like leave a bad taste in my mouth. I understand how Discourse facilitates onboarding, but the idea of delegating to a central server and using the browser as the sole user interface remains unappealing to me.
Getting old?
Federico Mena Quintero
in reply to Ludovic Courtès • • •Emmanuele Bassi
in reply to Ludovic Courtès • • •In any case, mailing lists are terrible for moderation, onboarding, and spam—just like anything that is based on email. Email is a centralised game, these days, unless you want everything to be marked as spam, and have nobody receive anything.
In any case: you can interact with Discourse via email as well.
Ludovic Courtès
in reply to Ludovic Courtès • • •(I find it intriguing though that we need such “social prostheses” in the first place; is the on-line etiquette too different from real-life interactions?)
Ludovic Courtès
in reply to Ludovic Courtès • • •Andrew Tropin
in reply to Ludovic Courtès • • •Emmanuele Bassi
in reply to Andrew Tropin • • •Depending on the configuration of the instance, you may also need to actually browse it and interact with it a bit to raise your user level, before you can open topics just by sending an email.
Andrew Tropin
in reply to Emmanuele Bassi • • •Emmanuele Bassi
in reply to Andrew Tropin • • •If you're referring to being able to send patches via email, that's just false economy: you have a steep set up cost (git send-email is not a simple thing), and then you get stuck with patches over email, which is a fate worse than death.
Andrew Tropin
in reply to Emmanuele Bassi • • •I agree the set up process is tough and there are not much good modern tools, but after initial configuration the experience is quite pleasant and in addition to that it's also offline-friendly. YMMV of course.
Ludovic Courtès
in reply to Emmanuele Bassi • • •Emmanuele Bassi
in reply to Ludovic Courtès • • •